The Arizona sentinel., 1887-03-12
FUNNY ERRORS.
Some Typographical Blunders That Seem
 Lika Jokes on DIartyred Writers.

LikA Jokes on OIartyred Writers.
 ''Why don't you write up an article
 about the typographical blunders print CTS make?" asked the ''ring-man."
 The ring man, be it known, is the cult ,Ired typo" who makes corrections which were not in the ''copy." And out of the store of his recollections as a tramp printer, who has carried hls com posing-rule and his cob pipe from Maine to New Mexico and all round, he brought forth a few choice dainties.
 T was sticking type in Albuquerque, x. M.," said he, "and we had one of those machine printers working on the next case to mine. A machine printer, you understand, is dunderhead who sets up what the copy looks like, no rJatter whether it makes sense or not He is the man who never learns any thing. You know how the 'flimsy' comes, this telegraph stuff. The operators, instead of writing thls morning. say 'smorning.' So when when they write government it reads govt Well, this fellow set it up goat President Diaz of the Mexican Republic appeared as President Ding Oh, he was beauty-bright, that man was. I got caught up the other day myself. The head read: Boot and Shoe Boycott and I set it up Boot and Shoe Bay Colt How's that? A fellow in this office, Iwon't tell you his name, set up Santa Claus Senator Claus bet he got nothing in his stocking for that deadly insult This same fellow divided chicken so that the first syllable was chi Chicken goes, don't it?'
 Then the reporter related how he had been guyed by convocation of clergy men because the printer made him say that the clergy handed in their "up- roots," instead of reports"
 "A typographical error which oc- cured during the war has been handed down by tradition to posterity is this, which I think has never been surpassed: The conflict between the maniac and the minister 'Merrimac and the Monitor, was what the editor meant tc say. Oh, before I forget it, let me tell you another one on that jay in Albuourque. The Chiricahuas were kicking up good deal of disturbance about that time and the gillie thought everything that began with 'ch' was a ChiriC ahua. So when the editor wrote touching article about the death of beautiful young singer in Chihuahua, and wrote head 'Chihua- hua Mourning a Prima Donna,' he set it up 'Cliricahuas Making Princess Dance
 q saw in a paper the other day that a piece of music was written in e min ion Pm not a musician, but Slug z, who is, says the writer meant c minor The Tribune once set up 'Gambetta' I Am Better A long time ago an editor wanted to say some thing laudatory of a Knight of Labor who was visiting Chicago, and he printed an interview with him under the head A Thinking Tailor and the fool head man set up A Thieving Taylor Well. may be that man wasn't mad He just came round a. boomin' and a-bilin'. Then, in the Club Man one day an exquisite was described whose manners would adorn drawing-room' and the intelligent compositor made it read whose man. ners would alarm drowning man.
 The head Bridge Carried Away by a Drove of Hogs" was written By a Drive of Logs" It would be pretty | sight to see drove of hogs carrying away a bridge, now, wouldn't it? A clever printer spoiled a romantic head which the editor intended for "The Halls of the Montezumas" by making it ''Hells of the Monte Games" and the Cincinnati Enquirer once created a genuine sensation by stating in big dis play type that a gang of American counterfeiters in England had been Shaving the Queen" "Shoving the Queer" was the original. Chicago NdI.